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Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to DefragShow@microsoft.com. We will also be checking comments for problems, but the email address will let us contact you if needed.

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Just wanted to update you guys on the issue and an Event ID 41 is definitely logged with a 0 value for the BugCheck code. The system abruptly restarts so it looks like it can't write out a value to the system log in time for the restart.

I'm going to email a follow up log here just to make sure that is the case and you guys don't see something I don't. The KB posted above suggests a mem check, check the power supply, or overheating so I'm going to get some monitoring tools to make sure it's not overheating. I have a feeling the power supply is crummy.

In regards to Windows 8. I would like to put out a man vs desktop challenge to Gov. Do an show using Windows 8 on your Laptop and see if all the viewers agree the desktop / laptop expirence is better now.

You can most likely sence I do not like windows 8 as a desktop user.

Can you dog food your product for one show ?

I expect you will need LOTS of metro blocks or more likely rely on text search to get to apps. I am finding it very hard to beat the windows 7 desktop enviroment in windows 8 preview.

The game problem is caused by games that reset the mouse position to the center of their window/center of the screen every frame. This is done to get mouse movement without having problems when the cursor reaches the screen borders. They do it this way because it's not too easy to get correct acceleration data when using the Win32 mouse constrain APIs.